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Grain [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Any small hard mass; as a grain of sand or gravel. Hence,

2. A single seed or hard seed of a plant, particularly of those kinds whose seeds are used for food of man or beast. This is usually inclosed in a proper shell or covered with a husk, and contains the embryo of a new plant. Hence,

3. grain without a definitive, signifies corn in general, or the fruit of certain plants which constitutes the chief food of man and beast, as wheat, rye, barley, oats and maiz.

4. A minute particle.

5. A small weight, or the smallest weight ordinarily used, being the twentieth part of the scruple in apothecaries' weight, and the twenty fourth of a pennyweight troy.

6. A component part of stones and metals.

7. The veins or fibers of wood or other fibrous substance; whence, cross-grained, and against the grain

8. The body or substance of wood as modified by the fibers.

9. Hard box, and linden of a softer grain

10. The body or substance of a thing considered with respect to the size, form or direction of the constituent particles; as stones of a fine grain

11. The tooth of a sea-horse, contains a curdled grain

12. Any thing proverbially small; a very small particle or portion; as a grain of wit or of common sense.

13. Neglect not to make use of any grain of grace.

14. Dyed or stained substance.

15. All in a robe of darkest grain

16. The direction of the fibers of wood or other fibrous substance; hence the phrase, against the grain applied to animals, that is, against their natural tempers.

17. The heart or temper; as brothers not united in grain

18. The form of the surface of any thing with respect to smoothness or roughness; state of the grit of any body composed of grains; as sandstone of a fine grain

19. A tine, prong or spike.

20. A grain of allowance, a small allowance or indulgence; a small portion to be remitted; something above or below just weight.

21. To dye in grain is to dye in the raw material, as wool or silk before it is manufactured.

Grain [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To yield fruit.

2. GRAIN , or GRANE , for groan. [Not in use.]

Grain [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Temper; natural disposition; inclination.

2. A sort of spice, the grain of paradise.

Grain [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A single small hard seed; a kernel, especially of those plants, like wheat, whose seeds are used for food.

2. The fruit of certain grasses which furnish the chief food of man, as corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc., or the plants themselves; -- used collectively.

3. Any small, hard particle, as of sand, sugar, salt, etc.; hence, any minute portion or particle; as, a grain of gunpowder, of pollen, of starch, of sense, of wit, etc.

4. The unit of the English system of weights; -- so called because considered equal to the average of grains taken from the middle of the ears of wheat. 7,000 grains constitute the pound avoirdupois, and 5,760 grains the pound troy. A grain is equal to .0648 gram. See Gram.

5. A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.

6. The composite particles of any substance; that arrangement of the particles of any body which determines its comparative roughness or hardness; texture; as, marble, sugar, sandstone, etc., of fine grain.

7. The direction, arrangement, or appearance of the fibers in wood, or of the strata in stone, slate, etc.

8. The fiber which forms the substance of wood or of any fibrous material.

9. The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.

10. The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff.

11. A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock. See Grained, a., 4.

12. To yield fruit.

13. To form grains, or to assume a granular ferm, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.

14. A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant.

15. A tine, prong, or fork.

16. One the branches of a valley or of a river.

17. An iron first speak or harpoon, having four or more barbed points.

18. A blade of a sword, knife, etc.

19. A thin piece of metal, used in a mold to steady a core.

Grain [Verb and noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Groan.

Grain [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To paint in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.

2. To form (powder, sugar, etc.) into grains.

3. To take the hair off (skins); to soften and raise the grain of (leather, etc.).

Grained [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Rough; made less smooth.

2. Dyed in grain; ingrained.

Grained [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Having a grain; divided into small particles or grains; showing the grain; hence, rough.

2. Dyed in grain; ingrained.

3. Painted or stained in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.

4. Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers.

Grained [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Grainer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A lixivium obtained by infusing pigeon's dung in water; used by tanners to give flexibility to skins.

Grainer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- called also grains and bate.

2. A knife for taking the hair off skins.

3. One who paints in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.; also, the brush or tool used in graining.

Grainfield [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A field where grain is grown.

Graining [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Indentation.

2. A fish of the dace kind.

Graining [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins.

2. A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised.

3. Painting or staining, in imitation of the grain of wood, atone, etc.

4. The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt.

5. A small European fresh-water fish (Leuciscus vulgaris); - called also dobule, and dace.

Graining. [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Grains [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The husks or remains of malt after brewing, or of any grain after distillation.

2. GRAINS of paradise, an Indian spice, the seeds of a species of Amomum.

Grains [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Pigeon's dung used in tanning. See Grainer. n., 1.

Grains [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See 5th Grain, n., 2 (b).

Grains of paradise Encyclopedia Britannica

GRAINS OF PARADISE, Guinea Grains, or Melegueta Pepper (German, Paradieskorner ; French, Graines de Paradis, Maniguette), the semina cardamomi majoris or piper melegueta of pharmaceutists, are the seeds of Amomum Melegueta, Roscoe, a reed-like plant of the natural order Zingiberaceoe, which is a native of tropical western Africa, and of Princes and St Thomas’s Islands in the Gulf of Guinea, is cultivated in British Guiana, and may with ease be grown in hot-houses in England. The plant has a branched horizontal rhizome; smooth, nearly sessile, alternate leaves, with the blade oblong-lanceolate; large, white, pale pink, or purplish flowers; and an ovate-oblong fruit, ensheathed in bracts, which is of a scarlet colour when fresh, and reaches under cultivation a length of 5 inches. The seeds are contained in the acid pulp of the fruit, are commonly wedge-shaped and bluntly angular, are about 1∣ line in diameter, and have a glossy dark-brown husk, with a conical light-coloured membranous caruncle at the base, and a white kernel. They contain, according to Fliickiger and Haubury, 0 , 3 per cent, of a faintly yellowish neutral essential oil, having an aromatic, not acrid taste, and a specific gravity at 15∙5° C. of 0 ’ 825, and giving on analysis the formula C 20 H 32 O, or C 10 H 16 + C 10 H lβ O; also 5 ’ 83 per cent, of an intensely pungent, viscid, brown resin. Grains of paradise were formerly officinal in British pharmacopoeias, and in the 13th and succeeding centuries were used as a drug and a spice, the wine known as hippocras being flavoured with them and with ginger and cinnamon. In 1629 they were employed among the ingredients of the twenty-four herring pies which were the ancient fee-favour of the city of Norwich, ordained to be carried to court by the ...

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Grainstaff [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A quarter-staff.

Grainy [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Full of grains or corn; full of kernels.

Grainy [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Resembling grains; granular.

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Genesis 27:28

Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:

May God give to you the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth— an abundance of grain and new wine.

Genesis 27:37

And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son?

But Isaac answered Esau: “Look, I have made him your master and given him all his relatives as servants; I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?”

Genesis 37:7

For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.

We were binding sheaves of grain in the field, and suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to mine.”

Genesis 41:5

And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.

but he fell back asleep and dreamed a second time: Seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, came up on one stalk.

Genesis 41:6

And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them.

After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted, thin and scorched by the east wind.

Genesis 41:7

And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.

And the thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven plump, ripe ones. Then Pharaoh awoke and realized it was a dream.

Genesis 41:22

And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good:

In my dream I also saw seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, growing on a single stalk.

Genesis 41:23

And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:

After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted—withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind.

Genesis 41:24

And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told this unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.

And the thin heads of grain swallowed the seven plump ones. I told this dream to the magicians, but no one could explain it to me.”

Genesis 41:26

The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.

The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven ripe heads of grain are seven years. The dreams have the same meaning.

Genesis 41:27

And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.

Moreover, the seven thin, ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and so are the seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the east wind—they are seven years of famine.

Genesis 41:35

And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.

Under the authority of Pharaoh, let them collect all the excess food from these good years, that they may come and lay up the grain to be preserved as food in the cities.

Genesis 41:49

And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.

So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance, like the sand of the sea, that he stopped keeping track of it; for it was beyond measure.

Genesis 41:56

And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.

When the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened up all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians; for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:57

And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands.

And every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.

Genesis 42:1

Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?

When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you staring at one another?”

Genesis 42:2

And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.

“Look,” he added, “I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die.”

Genesis 42:3

And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.

So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

Genesis 42:5

And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

So the sons of Israel were among those who came to buy grain, since the famine had also spread to the land of Canaan.

Genesis 42:6

And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph’s brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.

Now Joseph was the ruler of the land; he was the one who sold grain to all its people. So when his brothers arrived, they bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.